Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield (Jacob3, Thomas2, Thomas1)
was born 21 May 1819 in Brunswick, Maine; married Susan Jack Blake, daughter of Lemuel Blake and Nancy Staples, on
September 1849 in Portland, Maine. He died 17 October 1891 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick. A letter from Benjamin Chase Skolfield to his son dated. 11 September 1886, reads as follows:
Dear Son: (Benjamin Franklin Skolfield) We are all enjoying good health and hope these lines will find you and yours enjoying the same blessings. I have neglected to write to you for some time, knowing that the others wrote often and kept you well informed of everything of interest and now today perhaps I shall write but little but what you have heard of by others. Crops on the whole have been fair. Hay and grain were quite good. Potatoes have rotted some, the yield is fair. The apples about the same as last year excepting Baldwins will be less. The trees last year bore heavely [sic]. The corn I think will be pretty good.
You wrote John that you was expecting to come home next
Summer and bring Mary and Frank with you I hope it will be so that we shall not be disapointed [sic] seems as though it was about time for us to see each other. I feel much pleased with Thomas comming [sic] to the Point. I have no doubt but what it will be better for their health. Next year I suppose he will let the place. I shall pack and send to you with the letter 4 Photographs, one of your
Mother one of myself and two views of the building. I had two views taken as it will give you a better idea how things now look. The trees you will see have grown otherwise I don't know as there has been much change. Annas (?) and Spots (?) I like Johns Dans, are good, the wind blew quite hard at the time. Dan by some means shows it short tail. Mine own, well it shows the dirt well
on my knees, (the last three sentences are difficult to read). Your Mother Photograph ever taken the same as the small ones, my own they say it looks like me I hope they will go safely. Do you get the Telegraph now Write soon
Love to all [signed] Benj. C. Skolfield He and his wife are listed as having gravestones in Pine Grove Cemetery and Maquoit but a letter from their daughter, Ann Skolfield of Mere Point, said they are buried in Maquoit Cemetery. Her brother Thomas bought a lot in Pine Grove, and he was buried there and had a stone placed there for his parents. Susan Jack Blake was born 24 February 1827 in Bowdoin, Maine; died 11 April 1880 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick.
The children of Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield and Susan Jack Blake were:
i. Ellen Augusta5 Skolfield was born 27 May 1851;
married Aaron Hinkley Ridley,
ii. Thomas Blake Skolfield was born 6 April 1853; married, first, Emma Frances Wooster; married, second, {Catherine Benjamin Stanwood.
iii. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield was born 14 November 1855; married, first, Mary Etta Hall; married, second, Sarah Stanwood (Holman) Minot
iv. Ann Skolfield was born 6 June 1859 in Brunswick,
Maine. She and her brother John lived in their father's house on Mere Point and their house is near the site of the home of Thomas and Anne Anderson Skolfield. Lumber from the old house was used in building the cottage by Jacob Skolfield, Jr., whose widow sold it to her brother-inlaw Benjamin Chase Skolfield. Ann was a teacher in her young days and then homemaker for her father and brother after her mother's death.v. John Blake Skolfield was born 13 January 1864. He was a farmer. He was baptized in 1885 in the river and joined the Growstown Freewill Baptist Church. He had a certificate from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle saying he had completed the four years course of reading on August 17, 1892. The group taking the course together at members' homes consisted of Kate Stanwood, later Mrs. Thomas B. Skolfield, Carrie Richardson of Bunganack, who married Daniel Skolfield, Susan Gummer and Ann Skolfield.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
was born 21 May 1819 in Brunswick, Maine; married Susan Jack Blake, daughter of Lemuel Blake and Nancy Staples, on
September 1849 in Portland, Maine. He died 17 October 1891 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick. A letter from Benjamin Chase Skolfield to his son dated. 11 September 1886, reads as follows:
Dear Son: (Benjamin Franklin Skolfield) We are all enjoying good health and hope these lines will find you and yours enjoying the same blessings. I have neglected to write to you for some time, knowing that the others wrote often and kept you well informed of everything of interest and now today perhaps I shall write but little but what you have heard of by others. Crops on the whole have been fair. Hay and grain were quite good. Potatoes have rotted some, the yield is fair. The apples about the same as last year excepting Baldwins will be less. The trees last year bore heavely [sic]. The corn I think will be pretty good.
You wrote John that you was expecting to come home next
Summer and bring Mary and Frank with you I hope it will be so that we shall not be disapointed [sic] seems as though it was about time for us to see each other. I feel much pleased with Thomas comming [sic] to the Point. I have no doubt but what it will be better for their health. Next year I suppose he will let the place. I shall pack and send to you with the letter 4 Photographs, one of your
Mother one of myself and two views of the building. I had two views taken as it will give you a better idea how things now look. The trees you will see have grown otherwise I don't know as there has been much change. Annas (?) and Spots (?) I like Johns Dans, are good, the wind blew quite hard at the time. Dan by some means shows it short tail. Mine own, well it shows the dirt well
on my knees, (the last three sentences are difficult to read). Your Mother Photograph ever taken the same as the small ones, my own they say it looks like me I hope they will go safely. Do you get the Telegraph now Write soon
Love to all [signed] Benj. C. Skolfield He and his wife are listed as having gravestones in Pine Grove Cemetery and Maquoit but a letter from their daughter, Ann Skolfield of Mere Point, said they are buried in Maquoit Cemetery. Her brother Thomas bought a lot in Pine Grove, and he was buried there and had a stone placed there for his parents. Susan Jack Blake was born 24 February 1827 in Bowdoin, Maine; died 11 April 1880 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick.
The children of Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield and Susan Jack Blake were:
i. Ellen Augusta5 Skolfield was born 27 May 1851;
married Aaron Hinkley Ridley,
ii. Thomas Blake Skolfield was born 6 April 1853; married, first, Emma Frances Wooster; married, second, {Catherine Benjamin Stanwood.
iii. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield was born 14 November 1855; married, first, Mary Etta Hall; married, second, Sarah Stanwood (Holman) Minot
iv. Ann Skolfield was born 6 June 1859 in Brunswick,
Maine. She and her brother John lived in their father's house on Mere Point and their house is near the site of the home of Thomas and Anne Anderson Skolfield. Lumber from the old house was used in building the cottage by Jacob Skolfield, Jr., whose widow sold it to her brother-inlaw Benjamin Chase Skolfield. Ann was a teacher in her young days and then homemaker for her father and brother after her mother's death.v. John Blake Skolfield was born 13 January 1864. He was a farmer. He was baptized in 1885 in the river and joined the Growstown Freewill Baptist Church. He had a certificate from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle saying he had completed the four years course of reading on August 17, 1892. The group taking the course together at members' homes consisted of Kate Stanwood, later Mrs. Thomas B. Skolfield, Carrie Richardson of Bunganack, who married Daniel Skolfield, Susan Gummer and Ann Skolfield.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield (Jacob3, Thomas2, Thomas1)
was born 21 May 1819 in Brunswick, Maine; married Susan Jack Blake, daughter of Lemuel Blake and Nancy Staples, on
September 1849 in Portland, Maine. He died 17 October 1891 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick. A letter from Benjamin Chase Skolfield to his son dated. 11 September 1886, reads as follows:
Dear Son: (Benjamin Franklin Skolfield) We are all enjoying good health and hope these lines will find you and yours enjoying the same blessings. I have neglected to write to you for some time, knowing that the others wrote often and kept you well informed of everything of interest and now today perhaps I shall write but little but what you have heard of by others. Crops on the whole have been fair. Hay and grain were quite good. Potatoes have rotted some, the yield is fair. The apples about the same as last year excepting Baldwins will be less. The trees last year bore heavely [sic]. The corn I think will be pretty good.
You wrote John that you was expecting to come home next
Summer and bring Mary and Frank with you I hope it will be so that we shall not be disapointed [sic] seems as though it was about time for us to see each other. I feel much pleased with Thomas comming [sic] to the Point. I have no doubt but what it will be better for their health. Next year I suppose he will let the place. I shall pack and send to you with the letter 4 Photographs, one of your
Mother one of myself and two views of the building. I had two views taken as it will give you a better idea how things now look. The trees you will see have grown otherwise I don't know as there has been much change. Annas (?) and Spots (?) I like Johns Dans, are good, the wind blew quite hard at the time. Dan by some means shows it short tail. Mine own, well it shows the dirt well
on my knees, (the last three sentences are difficult to read). Your Mother Photograph ever taken the same as the small ones, my own they say it looks like me I hope they will go safely. Do you get the Telegraph now Write soon
Love to all [signed] Benj. C. Skolfield He and his wife are listed as having gravestones in Pine Grove Cemetery and Maquoit but a letter from their daughter, Ann Skolfield of Mere Point, said they are buried in Maquoit Cemetery. Her brother Thomas bought a lot in Pine Grove, and he was buried there and had a stone placed there for his parents. Susan Jack Blake was born 24 February 1827 in Bowdoin, Maine; died 11 April 1880 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick.
The children of Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield and Susan Jack Blake were:
i. Ellen Augusta5 Skolfield was born 27 May 1851;
married Aaron Hinkley Ridley,
ii. Thomas Blake Skolfield was born 6 April 1853; married, first, Emma Frances Wooster; married, second, {Catherine Benjamin Stanwood.
iii. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield was born 14 November 1855; married, first, Mary Etta Hall; married, second, Sarah Stanwood (Holman) Minot
iv. Ann Skolfield was born 6 June 1859 in Brunswick,
Maine. She and her brother John lived in their father's house on Mere Point and their house is near the site of the home of Thomas and Anne Anderson Skolfield. Lumber from the old house was used in building the cottage by Jacob Skolfield, Jr., whose widow sold it to her brother-inlaw Benjamin Chase Skolfield. Ann was a teacher in her young days and then homemaker for her father and brother after her mother's death.v. John Blake Skolfield was born 13 January 1864. He was a farmer. He was baptized in 1885 in the river and joined the Growstown Freewill Baptist Church. He had a certificate from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle saying he had completed the four years course of reading on August 17, 1892. The group taking the course together at members' homes consisted of Kate Stanwood, later Mrs. Thomas B. Skolfield, Carrie Richardson of Bunganack, who married Daniel Skolfield, Susan Gummer and Ann Skolfield.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
was born 21 May 1819 in Brunswick, Maine; married Susan Jack Blake, daughter of Lemuel Blake and Nancy Staples, on
September 1849 in Portland, Maine. He died 17 October 1891 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick. A letter from Benjamin Chase Skolfield to his son dated. 11 September 1886, reads as follows:
Dear Son: (Benjamin Franklin Skolfield) We are all enjoying good health and hope these lines will find you and yours enjoying the same blessings. I have neglected to write to you for some time, knowing that the others wrote often and kept you well informed of everything of interest and now today perhaps I shall write but little but what you have heard of by others. Crops on the whole have been fair. Hay and grain were quite good. Potatoes have rotted some, the yield is fair. The apples about the same as last year excepting Baldwins will be less. The trees last year bore heavely [sic]. The corn I think will be pretty good.
You wrote John that you was expecting to come home next
Summer and bring Mary and Frank with you I hope it will be so that we shall not be disapointed [sic] seems as though it was about time for us to see each other. I feel much pleased with Thomas comming [sic] to the Point. I have no doubt but what it will be better for their health. Next year I suppose he will let the place. I shall pack and send to you with the letter 4 Photographs, one of your
Mother one of myself and two views of the building. I had two views taken as it will give you a better idea how things now look. The trees you will see have grown otherwise I don't know as there has been much change. Annas (?) and Spots (?) I like Johns Dans, are good, the wind blew quite hard at the time. Dan by some means shows it short tail. Mine own, well it shows the dirt well
on my knees, (the last three sentences are difficult to read). Your Mother Photograph ever taken the same as the small ones, my own they say it looks like me I hope they will go safely. Do you get the Telegraph now Write soon
Love to all [signed] Benj. C. Skolfield He and his wife are listed as having gravestones in Pine Grove Cemetery and Maquoit but a letter from their daughter, Ann Skolfield of Mere Point, said they are buried in Maquoit Cemetery. Her brother Thomas bought a lot in Pine Grove, and he was buried there and had a stone placed there for his parents. Susan Jack Blake was born 24 February 1827 in Bowdoin, Maine; died 11 April 1880 in Brunswick, Maine, and was buried in Maquoit Cemetery, Brunswick.
The children of Benjamin Chase4 Skolfield and Susan Jack Blake were:
i. Ellen Augusta5 Skolfield was born 27 May 1851;
married Aaron Hinkley Ridley,
ii. Thomas Blake Skolfield was born 6 April 1853; married, first, Emma Frances Wooster; married, second, {Catherine Benjamin Stanwood.
iii. Benjamin Franklin Skolfield was born 14 November 1855; married, first, Mary Etta Hall; married, second, Sarah Stanwood (Holman) Minot
iv. Ann Skolfield was born 6 June 1859 in Brunswick,
Maine. She and her brother John lived in their father's house on Mere Point and their house is near the site of the home of Thomas and Anne Anderson Skolfield. Lumber from the old house was used in building the cottage by Jacob Skolfield, Jr., whose widow sold it to her brother-inlaw Benjamin Chase Skolfield. Ann was a teacher in her young days and then homemaker for her father and brother after her mother's death.v. John Blake Skolfield was born 13 January 1864. He was a farmer. He was baptized in 1885 in the river and joined the Growstown Freewill Baptist Church. He had a certificate from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle saying he had completed the four years course of reading on August 17, 1892. The group taking the course together at members' homes consisted of Kate Stanwood, later Mrs. Thomas B. Skolfield, Carrie Richardson of Bunganack, who married Daniel Skolfield, Susan Gummer and Ann Skolfield.
Taken from a book:
"Decendants of Thomas Skolfield"
1707-1796 by "Ester S. deVries"
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